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Non-Western Blog

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 Non-Western Blog Title: Huichol Indian Sacred Tree of Life Artist: Andrew Osta Yarn Painting on Panel  The reason I chose this piece is because it’s amazing and I could not quit looking at it. When looking at this particular piece it is the plant of life, peyote plant and only this exact plant could enhance divine relations with Huichol gods. It carries several colors of blue, red, yellowish green and white and many times represented as ear of corn in its original form. The significance of colors also came to light and runs the same way until today’s current Huichol art. Orange symbolizes their sacred land where all life began according to the Huichol. Yellow is used during ceremonies for face painting and comes from a root that grows in Wirikuta. Green is growth, young into men, grandfathers, the heart, healing, the heavens, and the earth. Blue signifies femininity, rain, water, Pacific Ocean, and the South and finally, red signifies masculinity, fire, and the East while white signif
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Post Modern 1980 to Present: Games

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Super Mario Sunshine Developer: Nintendo Release Date:  July 19, 2002 Location: Tokyo, Japan  Let's begin with Super Mario Sunshine with its colorful, bright, and eye-catching colors, is the dominant element that draws your eyes in. The protagonist, Mario, is dressed in a beautiful vibrant bright red shirt and brilliant bright blue overalls. Surrounding him are many colors like yellow, blues, and whites and a little green. I like the font they used for the Super Mario sunshine it's like a bubble writing with a few straight edges here and there, instead of the soft curved lines normally found on bubble lettering. The game takes place on the tropical Isle Delfino, where Mario, Toadsworth, Princess Peach, and five Toads are taking a vacation. A villain resembling Mario, known as Shadow Mario, vandalizes the island with graffiti and leaves Mario to be wrongfully convicted for the mess. The actual gameplay utilizes color to appeal to the players.  Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
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Early Modern Blog- The influence of The Great Depression

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 “Sharecroppers’ Revolt" Artist:    Joseph Paul Vorst Year: 1939 Type: Oil on Panel Location:  Shogren-Meyer Collection      I picked this painting because it shows how hard people worked and what kind of struggles, they had to go through during the great depression. This shows both as a teaching tool and as a history of a critical social movement of the 1930s, a period of dominant government intervention and a time of rural studies researching that needs and exploitation of the poor people. In this painting it says that he compared today to the America in the 1920s and 1930s. He was seeing warning signals, such as climate change and income disparity, that ended in a future depression. I wouldn't want a copy of this hanging in my home personally but if I were to hang it somewhere I would definitely hang it in the entryway or the man cave just to show that we're hard workers as well. 😊 I would like to compare it to this day and age but then is nowhere near the same as t
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Preferences and Perspectives - The Romantic Era

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The Stone Breakers Gustave Courbet, 1849 Destroyed during World War II This painting is of two very hard-working men, the younger one holds a basket and the older one picks at the stones. These men are doing one of the worst jobs anyone could imagine, creating gravel for roads. This painting was intended to show the hard labor that poor citizens had to experience. Stone Breaking was a very low paying job and would require you to work very long hours in tore up clothes, scratched up knees and weathered cracked hands. Courbet did not show the figure's faces, they represent the "every man" and are not meant to be specific individuals. As horrible as this job looks, it was very important and everybody needed roads to travel, modern life was centered on roads. More of the details in the painting includes the anonymity of the two men and their stronger relationship to the land than to their popularity. Even though they never made history books or barley remembered, they w
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Classical Blog Exhibit- Revolution and Art – 1700’s

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  Title: The Lansdowne Portrait Artist: Gilbert Stuart Year: 1796 Created: Philadelphia The Lansdowne portrait is an iconic life-size portrait of George Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1796. It took place at Stuart's studio in the William Moore Smith house, at the southeast corner of 5th & Chestnut Streets. Gilbert Stuart always dreamed of having the opportunity to paint George’s portrait.   The George Washington painting was one of many, he focused on the differing image, quality, and purpose every time. “The Lansdowne Portrait” is an oil on canvas that was commissioned by Senator William Bingham of Pennsylvania in 1796. In this painting, Gilbert has George Washington standing with his right arm out, and left arm to side as if he about to bow. He is surrounded by the symbolism of both American and Ancient Rome designed furniture and décor, at top of the chair the stands the American flag.   There are Doric columns in the background, and he is holding a decorati
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Baroque/Renaissance Blog

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                                                                                                                                                                                               The Head of Medusa- P eter Paul Rubens History: The Head of Medusa, 1617-1618 by Peter Paul Rubens. Her serpentine locks writhing hideously, lies on a stony ledge in a landscape. Some of the intertwined snakes bite one another and others give birth, while drops of Medusa's blood are transformed into still other tiny vipers. The iconic Medusa was painted by the prolific master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio in 1597.  He painted two versions of the work - the first one in 1596, known as Murtula, belongs to a private collector, while the second painting known as just Medusa made in 1597, slightly bigger than the first, is held in the Florentine Uffizi Museum. Tone: Through his manipulation of the human form, Rubens was able to create captivating paintings that were filled with vigor and actio
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Renaissance Blog

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  Tamera Captain Art F200X- Professor  Lisa Kljaich 6 June 2022 Renaissance Blog   “Pallas and the Centaur”    Pallas and the Centaur is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482. It is now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.  The female figure was called Camilla. This is one of his masterpieces recognized for its layers of symbolism is Pallas and the Centaur. The painting has been retouched and looked and printed in many places, and these retouching’s have faded. These figures are from classical mythology and probably form an allegory. There is a centaur on the left, and a female figure holding a very elaborate halberd on the right. She is clutching the centaur's hair, and he seems submissive to her, seems to make her feel powerful. The bright colors are used in this painting, this allows them to be the focus of the painting and make it pop. The darker colors of the sea, the sky and the sandy beaches add contrast to the work, highlightin
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